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    Disable attempts to cleanup IBM Flash array snapshots after Devender SAN backup/restore

    When the current version of Defender runs a backup or recovery operation for a SAN source, a snapshot will be created of the configured storage, the backup/recovery operation completed and then a cleanup of the snapshot is attempted. Normally this...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    The different pokes for DS8K subsystems should be documented

    In DS8K there exist different pokes - which is internal settings that change the default Microcode behavior. A poke is typically set by a DS8K SME based on a case. But as it could help solve problems for you, you need to know that the poke exists....
    5 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

    Support for Mirrored SVC/Storage Virtualize Volumes on Storage Sentinel and Defender Data Protect

    Today, neither Sentinel or Data Protect support mirrored volumes. While it is possible to have safeguarded copies of mirrored SVC volumes from storage virtualize this would be suitable for crash consistency not workloads like Oracle. Customers who...
    about 1 year ago in Storage Sentinel 0 Under review

    add full DB2 Backup and Restore support to DDP

    we use DDP for VMware, AD, MS SQL, Container, Mongo DB, physical server, clusters and as an S3 target for all applications without agent support or embedded S3 support. Our biggest workload, IBM DB2, is the only application still on ISP. That make...
    5 months ago in Defender Data Protect/Replica 0 Under review

    Requirement for LDAPS (secure LDAP) support

    Since 2020 Microsoft has been actively pushing for adoption of LDAPS (LDAP over SSL/TLS) for security hardening of Active Directory Cloud and on-premise environments. Therefore, products to maintain supported access will need to support LDAPS. Cus...
    about 1 month ago in Storage Scale System 0 Under review

    Support copy to Cloud Container Pool using STGRules

    It's a very common use case to have one local backup of the data and for cyber resilience another air gaped copy on locked cloud storage. Unfortunately, this is currently not supported by Storage Protect. Please implement "Copy to Cloud Container ...
    over 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Under review

    Allow longer volume names - use shorter mapping names - in storage protect snapshot

    Currently the following limitation for source volume length is in effect: For IBM Spectrum Protect™ Snapshot to work in combination with dynamic target allocation (SVCDTA) device classes, the name of the SAN Volume Controller production source vol...
    almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Under review

    Snapshot and VG Snapshot Transparency to Expert Admins

    Currently the VG snapshots and vDisk snapshots are intransparent on the UI and cmd for expert administrators. Snapshot Disk are hidden and can only made visible with certain commands on the cmd but not on the UI. Which Snapshot rely on which other...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Under review

    Enable Password Expiry Visibility in Storage Defender

    Storage Defender currently lacks a feature to display or monitor password expiry dates for user accounts. This limitation affects all account types, including both individual user accounts and functional accounts used for automation and integratio...
    3 months ago in Storage Defender Data Resiliency Service (DRS) 0 Under review

    Develop or update API to show compression information in GEN10 for pools and devices

    This information will help to monitor the growth of the data in the DS8K. It's actually availlable in DSCLI but not in API.
    6 months ago in IBM DS8000 0 Under review

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